ABSTRACT
Drawing on Theodore Schatzki's understanding of practice as 'the site of the social', and relational social theory, this chapter explores how people involved in Agroalimentos Sanos de Oaxaca (AgroSano) an emergent rural production society in Oaxaca, Mexico have come to constitute influential relationships and associations around food. Based on ethnographic research and reflexive practice as a participant in hands-on training workshops, the chapter explores how bio-intensive farming and its social expressions inspire wide changes in people's food production, procurement, and exchange. The chapter addresses the case of AgroSano's founders' participation in a wide range of practices and assemblages such as organically grown food products, seed exchange networks, recycling programs, food fairs, celebrations, bio-constructed housing, and alternative energy. In agro-food studies, common approaches refer to producer–consumer relations as a space of abstract interactions based on ideas of productivity, efficiency, expansion, and growth.
